Blog Post 11 “Pre-Uni Coding Crisis: I Think I Might Be Cooked 🍳”
📝 Blog Post – “Pre-Uni Coding Crisis: I Think I Might Be Cooked 🍳”
So my uni session hasn’t even started yet, right? 🎓
I applied for computer science. Big move. Everyone keeps saying, “Bro, you’ll be fine, coding is just telling the computer what to do.” Sounds simple enough.
So I thought, let me be proactive. Why not hop on YouTube and watch a few videos on programming? Maybe I’ll walk into my first lecture already looking like a genius.
Yeah… no.
First video: some guy casually opens up a black screen with green text 💻. My man started typing like he was hacking into NASA. The speed? Illegal. I was still trying to figure out where the semicolon key was. ;
Second video: they started talking about “variables” and “loops.” 🔄 I was like, “Okay, so math but worse?” By the time “functions” entered the chat, I realized I wasn’t watching a tutorial—I was watching a horror movie. 👻
Third video: I decided to follow along and write the code myself. Typed everything exactly like the dude said. Pressed enter.
Computer: ❌ ERROR.
Me: … but I literally copied you, bro.
That’s when it hit me: I might be cooked. 🍳
Like, imagine you’re trying to learn how to boil pasta, and instead of water and spaghetti, someone hands you a chemistry set ⚗️ and says, “Good luck, chef.” That’s programming right now.
And this is before uni has even started. At this rate, by Week 1 I’ll just be in the back of the class nodding like, “Ah yes, recursion… love that for us 🧠,” while secretly Googling, what is recursion?
If anyone needs me, I’ll be crying into my keyboard 😭⌨️, hoping the error messages start coming with subtitles.
📓 Student Diary Entries:
Day 1: Watched coding video. Felt confident. ⭐
Day 2: Met “variables.” Not friends. 😒
Day 3: The computer barked ERROR at me again. 🐕💥
Day 5: Pretty sure my code is alive. Send help. 🤖
— Chaos Samuel
Writing without permission. Living without labels.
